Leslie R. Martin

Institution

La Sierra University

Current Position

Professor of Psychology

Highest Degree

Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from University of California, Riverside, 1996

My primary research interests focus on two areas. The first involves personality and psychosocial factors as predictors of health and mortality risk, as well as the pathways that they take. The second addresses clinician-patient relationships-- partnering, health communication, and so on; and their associations with medical outcomes such as adherence, satisfaction, and physical health indicators. In particular I am interested in determining ways to tailor interventions to optimize patients' success as they make health-behavior changes and work toward health-related goals.

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Primary Interests:

Communication, Language

Emotion, Mood, Affect

Gender Psychology

Health Psychology

Nonverbal Behavior

Personality, Individual Differences

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